What We Believe

God is the Creator of all things; He is the just and merciful ruler of the Universe. God is one God (united in purpose) in three persons. The Father is all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and is invisible to mortal sight. The Son (Christ) is all the fullness of the Godhead manifested—and "the express image of the Father's person." The Holy Spirit is all the fullness of the Godhead making manifest the power of divine grace to all who receive and believe in Christ as a personal Savior. There are three living persons of the heavenly trio; in the name of these three great powers—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—those who receive Christ by living faith are baptized, and these powers will co-operate with the obedient subjects of heaven in their efforts to live the new life in Christ.

The Bible is the Word of God. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”

This world was created by God in six literal days—followed by the seventh-day. The Sabbath was made holy and set aside as a special day of rest and communion with God. The Sabbath has ever remained God’s chosen day. It is the fourth command of God’s holy law of Ten Commandments. Because it is the commandment that identifies God’s authority (Creator) and His domain (heaven and earth), it is the seal of God upon His law and upon His people.

Health reform is the right hand of the gospel in that as we live in harmony with the laws of nature we cooperate with God to bring health and healing, just as by living in harmony with God's moral laws we cooperate with God to bring spiritual health and healing. The law is the righteous, eternal, unchanging transcript of God’s character. It contains the uncompromising principles of His eternal government.

The Sabbath is the seal of the law of God and will be the special test of loyalty in the final conflict between Christ and Satan as worked out through the people of the final generation.

God raised up this remnant church of Bible prophecy to strictly follow Christ's city-centric missionary approach to build a highly visible, deliberate, contrast between the principles of this world, and those of God's government. Through a decidedly missionarial process, we are to targets the large cities to assert the two great principles of God's law—worship to God and service to man. This plan tactically combines works of kindness and mercy with the tough-love judgment-hour warning of the three angels' messages to present the whole character of Christ: "The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty."

The three angels' messages sounds the alarm to the people of the world: that unless they enlist the services of the Great Physician for physical healing; unless they enroll in the School of Christ for restoration of their mind; and unless they come to Christ (the only Mediator between God and man) for spiritual regeneration; the judgments of God will soon fall upon them. In these final moments of reprieve, the offer of salvation is free to all. To whosoever will, God promises to restore in them the image of his Maker, to bring them back to the perfection in which man was created, to promote the development of body, mind, and soul, that the divine purpose in our creation might be realized." "Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manor of disease among the people. Our mission operates as three primary protocols: educational, ministerial, and medical; it uses specific activity to present Jesus as man's only hope for mental, spiritual, and physical restoration.

The angel of Revelation 18 signifies a great swell in the proclamations of the three angels. As the Holy Spirit falls upon a purified (restored) church the whole earth will be lighted with the glory of the final message which will be as the latter rain to ripen earth's harvest. Every person on earth will be brought to test. There will be but two camps: those who stand for God and His law, and those who stand with Satan in rebellion.

Though originally created perfect and sinless, man, through Adam’s disobedience, has inherited a fallen physical and moral condition. We are weak and of ourselves unable to resist sin. Because of this fallen nature, we have all participated in sin.

Christ is the exception. Christ is fully God, who at a point in time, condescended to become the God-man. He became fully man, while at the same time holding onto His full divinity. Christ inherited the same weakened human nature that the rest of humanity has inherited--but He, being God, was able to “[bring] into His human nature all the life-giving energies that human beings will need and must receive.” “He maintained the purity of His divine character.” And “He developed in His humanity, a perfect human nature, ‘for He presented to the wondering universe perfect and complete humanity in His human character and perfect obedience to all the requirements of God.’”

Through His atoning sacrifice on Calvary, Christ has reconciled us to God; and through His life (in us) we are saved from the corruption that is in the world through lust. With the Holy Spirit abiding in us we become partakers of the divine nature and are conformed to the character of Christ. This involves the relinquishment of our cherished ambitions and the surrender of ourselves to Jesus.

Christ is the only name in heaven and on earth whereby we can be saved because He alone is uniquely positioned (as the God-Man) to be our savior and to provide us with the power to overcome evil.

In 1798 the the prophetic time period of 1260 years came to an end. That time of papal reign came to an end when the pope was taken captive by France—thus wounding the beast of Revelation 13 with a deadly wound. This signified the beginning of the prophetic time of the end.

On October 22, 1844 another prophetic time period came to a close: the 2300 days of Daniel 8:14. At that time Jesus entered the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary to begin the work of investigative judgment. This judgment concerns all who profess the name of Christ to show whether their profession is genuine. It is the work of deciding the cases of those who are dead and of preparing those saints who are alive for the close of probation when Christ will cease His work as intercessor, lay off His priestly attire, put on His kingly robes, and come in the clouds of glory to redeem His own.

Prior to Christ’s return, Satan will put forth a mighty struggle. Earth will be thrown into a terrible time of trouble. As Satan succeeds in drawing earth’s inhabitants away from loyalty to God, God’s protection will be withdrawn from them. Awful calamity will follow as the winds of strife blow and as the plagues of God’s wrath are loosed.

The Seventh-day Adventist church is God’s remnant church with the special purpose of proclaiming the three angels' messages of Revelation 14—messages of warning to prepare the world for His return. As faithful messengers, we are to call God’s faithful people away from entanglements with the fallen systems of worship so that the plagues do not fall on them too.

The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. No one has immortality except God.

The Bible teaches that there are two deaths. The first is temporary—like sleep—and will end when the righteous dead are again brought to life at Christ’s literal, physical return to earth. They, along with the righteous living, will be taken to heaven and will reign there for one-thousand years. After the thousand years, the righteous will return (with God and the New Jerusalem) to this earth.

Then the wicked dead will be raised to review their life’s record, their guilt, and their sentence. And God will perform His strange act—He will carry out the sentence—He will destroy the wicked. They will be consumed completely with fire. They will never live again. The earth will be cleansed and made like new. The righteous will inherit the earth and live eternally.

The doctrine of the immortal soul is Satan’s masterpiece of deception. With it, he insinuates himself into God's position as he counterfeits the work of the Holy Spirit—using demons to masquerade as spirits of the dead to gain access to the hearts and minds of men and women. This error will be fully developed in the last days of earth’s history, and through spiritualism Satan will succeed in uniting the whole world in wondering after the beast and in worship to its image.

Except there will remain a faithful few who will remain true to the word of God.